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Uplift LMT Wellness PLLC

We help people get out of chronic pain using Massage Therapy, movement coaching, Neurokinetic Therapy, and strength training. Stop chasing your pain.

Stop guessing and start progressing here at Uplift.

03/16/2026

I had such a blast helping teach NKT L1 this weekend. NKT was a course that greatly impacted how I work with people every day. It helps me understand what to focus on, what dysfunctional relationships may be contributing to someone's pain or injury, and a very clear process to intervene and help them get better.

It helped me understand how motor control works, that tightness is an indication of a motor control/stability issue (not everything needs to be deep tissue massaged), and that you can get a really good insight into what may be dysfunctional with a good assessment process using muscle testing.

I've always had a feeling that I would enjoy the teaching process and this weekend definitely confirmed that. Not only is it fun to help people understand a new process and new skills, but I also learn through teaching, so I came home with a lot of great things to be aware of and practice as I get back into my own clientele.

I couldn't recommend this course enough to other practitioners. It would be a great asset to your current skill sets in whatever setting you're in.

03/13/2026

Investigating my wife's shoulder pain!

Catie has been experiencing left shoulder pain when swimming, bench pressing, and doing daily activities as well.

One thing that I love to use to help narrow down what I should be focusing on when dealing with an upper extremity issue is testing grip. There are a few structures that will play into grip weakness when your arm is either above hand or below hand that might give you insight on what you need to focus on.

And it came into play today as well! When you have above and below grip loss (whole hand) it usually means that something in the coraco- pectoral tunnel is entrapping the brachial plexus.

Through all of the different testing and screening we did, we found two different things:

AC Joint Decompression caused by subclavius and a bone callous on the clavicle from a break when she was 4 inhibiting her upper traps

A facilitated Left Pec Minor inhibiting her Left External Abdominal Oblique's ability to transfer load into the shoulder, and facilitate trunk rotation

After going through these protocols her grip came back both above and below head, she had much easier scapular movement and less "crunching and pinching" when moving the arm above head in scaption. A great start. The next step would be to integrate and load these patterns and continually improve trunk and scapular movement(as they are fairly limited)

03/10/2026

I truly believe that most people's pain and injury can be largely improved or resolved without pain meds and without immediately going to surgery.

If you're lucky, the one guarantee that you have in life is that you're going to be moving, loading yourself, and be generally physically independent.

If all those things are true, then you literally can only benefit from understanding how movement may contribute to your pain, from improving how you move, using focused soft tissue work, and learning how to get strong.

I tell people all the time, I won't promise that they're never going to experience pain ever again, but I will promise that they're going to have a better understanding of how they move, things that they can do to modulate their pain for the better, and learn how to feel strong in the process.

And let's face it, all pain is going to have a physical manifestation in some way shape or form. It literally has a name: antalgic movement or antalgic positions.

It's why I focus so heavily on using movement screens and assessment to see how the way this person moves and loads themselves might be contributing towards their pain and injury. You can find dysfunctional neurological relationships between structures. You can see the general loading pattern that people have when they do movement. Usually this is a part of the story, so if you can teach this person how to distribute load better, not be fearful of moving, and give them strategies to relearn movement, release structures that are working too hard, and strengthen patterns that they don't often do, you can make a lot of change in somebody's life that doesn't involve a knife or a muscle relaxer.

03/09/2026

Grateful to be able to be here and do this. I know how hard life can be firsthand from so many different viewpoints it could make you feel sick.

My goal is to help people live life easier and as pain free as they can. I've watched pain and injury take so much from people I love, and I don't want to see it happen (especially when there are better options than pain meds, surgery, or just giving up and “living with it”)

If there's a way forward using conservative means, I will help you find it. Let get moving, get strong, and feel better together.

03/06/2026

Right here in the Hudson Valley.

Someone brought this up to me the other day and I didn't really realize that this is how people feel: that you can't get anything that's exceptional or that feels special unless you go to major city centers.

I'm glad that I can provide something that's not only special, but that is the missing link for a lot of people's chronic pain, right in the beautiful Ulster County. Pretty rad.

03/05/2026

So many people walk into our office saying the same thing: “No one has ever actually listened to me.”

They’ve spent months, sometimes years, getting rushed through appointments, talked over, dismissed, or left more confused and hopeless than when they arrived. And honestly? That’s unacceptable.

Feeling unheard doesn't just make the pain worse, it makes you believe you are the problem. It convinces you that your situation is “too complicated,” that nothing will ever change, that you’re stuck like this forever. But that couldn’t be further from the truth.
At Uplift, we do things differently.

You’re not a diagnosis. You’re not a case number.
You’re a human with a story — and we actually want to hear it.
We take the time others don’t.

We sit with you, ask questions, explain what’s going on in a way that makes sense, and help you understand why you’re feeling what you’re feeling. Most people leave their very first session feeling something they haven’t felt in a long time: optimism. Because for the majority of people, you absolutely can move the needle in a positive direction.

And here’s the truth most places won’t tell you:

When you believe you can get better, your chances of getting better skyrocket. When someone finally takes the time to understand you, everything changes.

So here’s your reminder:

You are not too complicated.
You are not hopeless.
You can get better — and you deserve to work with someone who treats you that way.

Find the practitioner, coach, or clinician who actually listens. Who gives you time. Who works with you instead of rushing you through a routine. You’re not asking for too much, this is the standard you should expect.

If you’re ready for care that finally makes sense and finally feels supportive, send us a message. Let’s talk about what’s going on and help you take the first step forward.

03/04/2026

What is it going to take for you to finally make a change?

I couldn’t imagine living a life where I have debilitating pain preventing me from doing these experiences. I would do all that I could to regain as much function as I could to get back to where I was, or to get back to a higher standard of living, period.

I’m not saying you need to swing off of a boat on a rope swing (although I highly recommend you do), but you should feel confident to get on that boat in the first place.

Chronic pain limiting people from being able to go and live their lives is not good. If you want to be able to go and do these things, but pain says no, you need to look in the mirror and address it. Because I can promise you this, it won’t just magically “get better”. If it hasn’t done that after 6+months, it probably won’t now.

If you’re tired of life slipping by because you have a “bad” body part, we’d love to help you. Every day we work with people just like yourself feel better, move better, and feel more resilient. Let’s help you address it today by booking an intro call with us. Click the link in our bio and book your call.

03/03/2026

These are things that I’ve heard just in the last week alone from clients that I work with. You almost can’t help but laugh, and apologize to the person for the experience they’ve received.

It is literally insane. Some people really set the bar so low, that you can do close to nothing and it can feel like a world class experience (I even said this to one of the people lol). But unfortunately this is the reality that many experience when seeking help with chronic pain.

I’ll just be here, actually giving a $h!t and trying to figure out what can be done (within a movement, biomechanics, manual therapy, and strength lens) to make your life better. I won’t claim that I have every answer to every woe, but I am confident that I can help you feel less pain and more confident day to day.

And you’d be surprised how far that can go with your pain. Couple that with actual assessment to determine what are the biggest levers we can pull to get closer to the root of the issue? Now we’re talking.

Don’t settle for less. Strive for better. DM us and we can see how we can help you!!

03/02/2026

I’m going to break it to you, unless you had very specific direct trauma to the knee (car accident, another person ran into it, etc.) the issue probably isn’t at the knee…

The knee is going to respond to what is happening above and below it. More often than not, the hip is a major driver of knee pain. If the femur can’t stabilize and centrate from above, more force can go distally to “make up” for the inability to handle it proximally. Less often, but still very possible, the foot/ankle follows the same story. If your ankle complex can not manage load, change position, stabilize, etc., then the knee above is susceptible to taking on the brunt of the load.

IF you notice things are decentrating on both sides when doing this testing, then there is probably a core stability/motor control issue leaking downwards that needs to be cleared up (and can certainly be related to your knee pain… *hint hint* your lumbar spine houses the innervation to the whole lower extremity).

Just some food for thought. It may not be a knee specific issue. While increasing tolerance locally can be beneficial, it may not be the thing you need to get out of your pain. And 2 things CAN be done at once. You can improve your knee capacity while improving your hip and foot mechanics, which will probably improve your knee capacity as a byproduct.

02/28/2026

THE WORST DEADLIFT CUE IS YOU RETRACT YOUR SHOULDERS AND KEEP YOUR CHEST TALL

There are so many reasons why this cue sucks and here are some of them:

We have a kyphotic curve in our thoracic spine. This curve being maintained keeps the erectors in a good length-tension relationship to contract and resist forces (such as the barbell in your hands). Retraction usually encourages extension, flattening the curve, which in a hinged position won’t be useful

When you compromise one portion of your spine the other regions try to help. This looks like you throwing your head to the ceiling, you overarching your lower back and using now leg drive.

You will be pulled out of position as weight gets heavy. Your rhomboids aren’t that strong and won’t be able to hold that retracted position, especially as you get to harder working sets of 85% + of your 1RM

Poor brace from excessive rib flare and disadvantaging the lats from controlling bar position. Retraction = more thoracic extension. More thoracic extension = rib flare = less brace. Retraction = load going into mid traps/rhomboids and less into lats. Lats = keep bar close to you.

DEADLIFTING ISN’T SNATCHING/ CLEAN AND JERK. Stop equating them. They are power movements that require upright torso/more extension/retraction to have a vertical bar path to encourage speed. They are not even in the same category of exercise, so don’t try to deadlift your cleans and don’t try to clean your deadlifts.

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Wednesday	10:30am - 7pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Sunday	9am - 5pm

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